Where to Farm Silver Ore

The best place to farm Silver Ore is Ashenvale, where Wrathtail Sea Witch (level 19-20) drops it at 1.3%. That is the vanilla 1.12 chance, not yet confirmed in Forever. 502 sources are ranked below by drop chance.

Best zones:

The 15 zones with the best source; every source is listed below.

Zone	Sources	Best source	Level	Drop% ▼
Ashenvale	17	Silver Vein		100.0%
Hillsbrad Foothills	25	Silver Vein		100.0%
Thousand Needles	30	Ooze Covered Silver Vein		100.0%
Durotar	1	Battered Chest		8.3%
Wailing Caverns	10	Large Battered Chest		8.3%
The Stockade	6	Large Iron Bound Chest		4.2%
Westfall	24	Battered Chest		4.0%
Darkshore	7	Battered Chest		3.8%
Wetlands	24	Solid Chest		3.8%
Silverpine Forest	12	Alliance Chest		3.8%
The Barrens	38	Alliance Strongbox		3.8%
Loch Modan	26	Brawler	16	0.6%
Redridge Mountains	32	Ardo Dirtpaw	24	0.4%
Badlands	16	Anathemus	45+	0.4%
Stonetalon Mountains	24	Cliff Stormer	15-17	0.2%

All sources, by drop chance:

Vanilla reference — from the 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in Forever.

Source	Level	Zone	Spawns	Side	How	Drop% ▼	Map
Silver Vein		Ashenvale	1865		Mining	100.0%	map
Silver Vein		Hillsbrad Foothills	28		Mining	100.0%	map
Ooze Covered Silver Vein		Thousand Needles	9		Mining	100.0%	map
Battered Chest		Durotar	193		Contains	8.3%	map
Large Battered Chest		Wailing Caverns	18		Contains	8.3%	map
Large Iron Bound Chest		The Stockade	19		Contains	4.2%	map
Large Solid Chest		The Stockade	19		Contains	4.2%	map
Battered Chest		Westfall	120		Contains	4.0%	map
Battered Chest		Darkshore	109		Contains	3.8%	map
Solid Chest		Wetlands	109		Contains	3.8%	map
Alliance Chest		Hillsbrad Foothills	19		Contains	3.8%	map
Alliance Chest		Silverpine Forest	16		Contains	3.8%	map
Alliance Strongbox		The Barrens	4		Contains	3.8%	map
Malformed Defias Drone	23	Westfall	1		Drop	1.6%	map
Wrathtail Sea Witch	19-20	Ashenvale	13		Drop	1.3%	map
Heggin Stonewhisker(rare)	24	The Barrens	2	Horde only	Drop	0.7%	map
Brawler	16	Loch Modan	1		Drop	0.6%	map
Ardo Dirtpaw	24	Redridge Mountains	1		Drop	0.4%	map
Anathemus(rare)	45+	Badlands	1		Drop	0.4%	map
Ma'ruk Wyrmscale(rare)	23	Wetlands	1		Drop	0.3%	map
Cliff Stormer	15-17	Stonetalon Mountains	17		Drop	0.2%	map
Miner Hackett	29	Hillsbrad Foothills	1	Horde only	Drop	0.2%	map
Sergeant Malthus	38	Stranglethorn Vale	1		Drop	0.2%	map
Holdout Warrior(elite)	29-30+	Dun Morogh	8	Horde only	Drop	0.2%	map
Bonepaw Hyena	33-35	Desolace	15		Drop	0.1%	map
Kor'gresh Coldrage	39	Arathi Highlands	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Lok Orcbane	25	The Barrens	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Ridge Stalker Patriarch	40-41	Badlands	22		Drop	0.1%	map
Tharil'zun(elite)	24+	Redridge Mountains	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Goblin Shipbuilder(elite)	19-20+	The Deadmines	16		Drop	0.1%	map
Lord Cyrik Blackforge	23	The Barrens	1	Horde only	Drop	0.1%	map
Mo'grosh Mystic(elite)	19-20+	Loch Modan	14		Drop	0.1%	map
Defias Worker	16-17	Westfall	28		Drop	0.1%	map
Splinter Fist Warrior	29-30	Duskwood	11		Drop	0.1%	map
Windshear Overlord	21-22	Stonetalon Mountains	8		Drop	0.1%	map
Dragonmaw Centurion	28-29	Wetlands	7		Drop	0.1%	map
Boss Tho'grun	41-42	Badlands	1		Drop	0.1%	map
Elder Thunder Lizard	37-38	Desolace	40		Drop	0.1%	map
Black Slime	20-21	Wetlands	24		Drop	0.1%	map
Elder Razormaw	29	Wetlands	22		Drop	0.1%	map
Snapping Crustacean(elite)	23-24+	Blackfathom Deeps	18		Drop	0.1%	map
Cave Stalker	21-22	Wetlands	17		Drop	0.1%	map
Caverndeep Reaver(elite)	27-28+	Gnomeregan	16		Drop	0.1%	map
Mo'grosh Brute(elite)	19-20+	Loch Modan	14		Drop	0.1%	map
Nightbane Tainted One	30-31	Duskwood	14		Drop	0.1%	map
Whirlwind Ripper	32-34	Desolace	13		Drop	0.1%	map
Daggerspine Screamer	29-30	Hillsbrad Foothills	12		Drop	0.1%	map
Ravenclaw Guardian	20-21	Silverpine Forest	12		Drop	0.1%	map
Swampwalker	38-39	Swamp of Sorrows	11		Drop	0.1%	map
Boulderfist Magus	36-37	Arathi Highlands	9		Drop	0.1%	map
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Needed for:

Recipes:

Recipe ▲	Profession	Needs
Enchant Weapon - Recovery	Enchanting	4x
Smelt Silver	Mining	1x

Drop% is the rate recorded in Forever once a source has been looted ten times; a greyed figure is the vanilla 1.12 chance from the world data (vanilla reference — from the 1.12 world data, not yet confirmed in forever). Spawns counts the source's spawn points in the world data. "Side" names which side can kill the NPC when the other finds it friendly. The lead picks the best chance among sources that are not a rare spawn and have at least three spawn points.